The mismatch between supply and demand always exists within the supply chain and among retail stores. This situation is even worse for SMEs who work without state-of-the-art technologies, especially in terms of quantitative demand and size distribution in fashion industry. In this paper, we...

Some supply chain management researchers have realized the potential of collaborative activities for enhancing supply chain performance while other researchers have explored the positive impact of relationship quality on supply chain performance. To date, however, no empirical research has...

The study considers samples from the South African engineering companies who are strategic suppliers to mining and minerals industry and further explores the uncertainties persisting in the supply chain network. Further investigation was done to understand the role of big data and predictive...

Clustering is the process of analyzing data to find clusters of data objects that are similar in some sense to one another. Some research studies have also extended the usage of clustering concept in inventory management. Yet, not many research studies have considered the application of...

Temporal association rule mining is a data mining technique in which relationships between items which satisfy certain timing constraints can be discovered. This paper presents the concept of temporal association rules in order to solve the problem of classification of inventories by including...

A modified framework that applies temporal association rule mining to inventory management is proposed in this article. The ordering policy of frequent items is determined and inventory is classified based on loss rule. This helps inventory managers to determine optimum order quantity of...

A case study from the household goods manufacturing industry is presented in this paper. The manufacturing system consists of parallel machines to make three varieties of products with different processing time. Order cancel, raw material delay and entry of the returned goods from the after...

Raw materials and products are moved and created globally through complex supply chains. Within those supply chains, logistics is what enables the goods to move through distribution and to the end consumer. This is what motivates the researchers to examine the logistics portion of the supply...

Cloud technology in a multi-enterprise, collaborative context is one of the most promising topics at IT-Supply Chain (SC) intersection. Cloud comes with well-proven advantages and cost savings; enabling collaboration and business intelligence. Cloud transition is still on-going with individual...

In recent years, with the growth of international trade and development of economies, the volume of container throughput at China's ports has grown rapidly. Yet, the business process for the Less Container Load (LCL) transport industry in most ports of China still remain complicated and...